{"id":21036,"date":"2026-09-03T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/atmar-condemns-anti-persian-remarks-taliban-official\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T13:00:19","slug":"atmar-condemns-anti-persian-remarks-taliban-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/atmar-condemns-anti-persian-remarks-taliban-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmar condemns anti-Persian remarks by Taliban official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Hanif Atmar, the former acting foreign minister, has condemned what he called \u201chate speech\u201d against the identity, ethnic groups and languages of the people of Afghanistan, in response to remarks by a Taliban administration official about the country\u2019s languages.<\/p>\n<p>Without naming the official, he said insulting the language or identity of any section of the Afghan people, as well as any form of \u201cchauvinism and monopolisation,\u201d harms social cohesion and national unity.<\/p>\n<p>Atmar also pointed to the 2004 constitution, stressing that linguistic and cultural diversity in Afghanistan is considered a \u201cnational asset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after comments by a Taliban administration official about the country\u2019s languages drew reactions. Afghanistan is a multilingual and multiethnic society, and issues of language and identity are among the sensitive topics in the country\u2019s political and social sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan foreign minister Hanif Atmar condemns Taliban remarks on languages, calling them hate speech against national identity and unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}